Loneliness Quotes · Page 111

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King’s X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping…

— David Thomson

“I looked for every loveliness. It all came true. I wished on the moon. . . for you.”

— Michelle Dalton

I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have…

— Tom Ford

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Loneliness is a crowded room, Full of open hearts turned to stone, All together all alone”

— Bryan Ferry

“Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a…

— Philip Pullman

“. . . each feeling was hitched to its opposite, the way centripetal and centrifugal forces keep our universe from collapsing as…

— Miranda Weiss

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.”

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

— Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

— Richard Condon

“Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.”

— Bryant McGill

“I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!”

— Ochiai Naoyuki

“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling…

— David Whyte

“Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.”

— Toba Beta

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.”

— Matt Maher

Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and…

— Peter S. Beagle

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

— Laurence Sterne

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from…

— Dag Hammarskjold

A smile of yours can motivate me to live and a tear of yours can kill me. Do you know I am…

— Kemis Khan

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

— Banana Yoshimoto

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

— Megan Whalen Turner

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sometimes loneliness is a great medicine to our wounds in the mind.

— Anonymous

“When one is just sad one should just be alone.”

— Will Advise

Much bettet to live a lone with out someone than with someone but wil dessagree

— Anonymous

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at…

— Isak Dinesen

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

— Anonymous

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.”

— Madeleine Roux

“I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.”

— Faith Erin Hicks

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

— Anonymous

When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my…

— Ashley Judd

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd…

— Michael Leunig

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

— Kate DiCamillo

A great city is a great solitude.

— Hermione Gingold